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Portable GPS w/ VOR?
I know some pannel mount GSP units have VOR capability (not sure if
its internal or interfaces with transiever). Anyway people make portable transceivers with VOR, and portable GPS units with VOR databases but I have yet to see a GPS unit that does VOR. I would think it would be pretty easy to integrate a transceiver into a portable GPS. Does anyone make such a beast? I dont care if it ends up being twice as big. |
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I know some pannel mount GSP units have VOR capability (not sure if
its internal or interfaces with transiever). Anyway people make portable transceivers with VOR, and portable GPS units with VOR databases but I have yet to see a GPS unit that does VOR. I would think it would be pretty easy to integrate a transceiver into a portable GPS. Does anyone make such a beast? I dont care if it ends up being twice as big. Unless you can plug it into the ship's VOR antenna, the reception will stink. Why would you want such a thing anyway ? Use the VOR receiver in the airplane if the handheld GPS fails to operate. |
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It could be done.. but the question is WHY? Who would want to buy such a
thing (besides you)? I doubt there is enough of a market to make such a device worth the production cost. You can't use a portable device for legal IFR, whereas the panel mount devices can be... Dave Mini Moebius wrote: I know some pannel mount GSP units have VOR capability (not sure if its internal or interfaces with transiever). Anyway people make portable transceivers with VOR, and portable GPS units with VOR databases but I have yet to see a GPS unit that does VOR. I would think it would be pretty easy to integrate a transceiver into a portable GPS. Does anyone make such a beast? I dont care if it ends up being twice as big. |
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Garmin used to make a GPS with comm capability, but it was not popular and
it is no longer available. It would have been a simple matter to add VOR. |
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